One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.
Rene Descartes
Strange to say the luminous world is the invisible world, the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night.
Victor Hugo
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
Rene Descartes
When we build let us think that we build for ever.
John Ruskin
Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune or temporary defeat.
Napoleon Hill
Success is the child of audacity.
Benjamin Disraeli
Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf and take an insect view of its plain.
Henry David Thoreau
You must avoid sloth that wicked siren.
Horace
The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments with emperors kings and ministers but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans.
Benjamin Disraeli
